Jane Akre is an American journalist based in Florida. In 1997, she was fired from a Fox News while working at a Fox affiliate in Tampa for refusing to include knowingly false information in a report on the safety of a product produced by the Monsanto Corporation. Currently, she is the National News Editor for the Mesh News Desk (MND)—an online news source that covers the complications associated with surgical meshes. Through such reporting, MND looks to put a face on adverse events that affect everyday people.
“Least burdensome.” It is the jargon used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to guide how it regulates medical devices. It sounds like what Americans expect of their federal agency—that an FDA clearance means only the safest devices make it to market.…
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) there are more than one million hernia repairs done in the U.S. every year. In the old days, before a rush of medical devices hit the market, a surgeon would use some type of suture to…
Most meshes made for pelvic or hernia repair are heavy weight, small pore mesh. Small pore is considered anything one mm or less. Johnson & Johnson’s small pore, heavyweight mesh is known by its proprietary name Prolene. Whether used to treat incontinence in the form…
A simple hernia repair surgery. Most doctors sell it as a walk in the park depending on the hernia. It is the standard of care to use a polypropylene (PP) surgical mesh, generally small pore and heavy weight. There are roughly one million hernia surgeries…